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Post by permutojoe on Aug 7, 2018 2:37:11 GMT
Long but worth it. I never paid too close attention to the Simpsons and wasn't aware of most of this. There may be a little extra romanticizing of the early days, but the gist of this rings true.
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Post by DSDSquared on Aug 7, 2018 11:31:29 GMT
I love The Simpsons and still do. There are still plenty of great episodes. I will admit, I liked the show better during its teen seasons, but I still watch with the family.
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Post by permutojoe on Aug 7, 2018 12:37:02 GMT
I love The Simpsons and still do. There are still plenty of great episodes. I will admit, I liked the show better during its teen seasons, but I still watch with the family. Yeah I'm kind of the same way with Family Guy, which I've recently found out from a similar video has had a downfall of its own.
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Post by twothousandonemark on Aug 9, 2018 17:04:13 GMT
Sadly, the SNL style of ever new creative juices seems to have wrecked it.
To be fair, & I think needs to be said more, the show is simply of another era. They cannot remain the same family & genius sense of 1991 humour 25yrs later. You can't go home again.
They might've been better off doing shorter seasons like South Park, &/or cease television & return for films, theatrical & straight to dvd alike.
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Post by Jep Gambardella on Aug 9, 2018 18:46:21 GMT
Long but worth it. I never paid too close attention to the Simpsons and wasn't aware of most of this. There may be a little extra romanticizing of the early days, but the gist of this rings true.
I don't feel like watching a 30 min video, but I'll tell you what I think about The Simpsons: I loved it at the beginning and didn't miss an episode. Then at some point probably around season 14 or 15 I realised that I wasn't enjoying it so much anymore, but I still kept watching, only not so regularly, until some time later I stopped watching completely. For at least five years, probably more like eight, I didn't watch a single new episode. Then some years ago I caught an episode, kind of liked it, and started watching again - sporadically at first, and after some time, regularly. Now I again try to watch every new episode, and I enjoy most of them.
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Post by CoolJGS☺ on Aug 9, 2018 19:00:00 GMT
It robbed Bojack Horseman of an Emmy slot. I wish they would just transition to movies.
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Post by deembastille on Aug 9, 2018 19:40:53 GMT
they need to leave the show and APU alone. apu is fine. leave him be.
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Post by Harmless elf on Aug 9, 2018 22:26:10 GMT
The show has just gone on too long. You need to be invested in the characters, and when in one episode marge and homer first meet in the 70's then another episode they meet in the 90's, it's hard to care.
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Post by northernlad on Aug 17, 2018 13:46:02 GMT
I liked the video, it's a bit over analyzed if you ask me, but still there is a point. The show has just gone on too long. For me, I enjoyed The Simpsons up to season 10 and after that I started noticing that it was going downhill. Any of the recent episodes I've seen just don't have that spark to them. It's as though they are trying too hard to be funny when they never had to do that in the early years. And this is not exclusive to The Simpsons, all other TV shows that go to season 8 or beyond begin to get stale and are either canceled or the showrunners decide to just end it. I honestly don't know what has kept The Simpsons going all this time.
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Post by koskiewicz on Aug 21, 2018 19:05:45 GMT
I love "The Simpson's" and own both first and second sets of the bubble gum card sets depicting all of the characters.
"Is there anything that a donut cannot do?" -Homer Simpson
"Eat my shorts!" -Bart Simpson
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Post by Bargle on Aug 23, 2018 16:15:01 GMT
Long but worth it. I never paid too close attention to the Simpsons and wasn't aware of most of this. There may be a little extra romanticizing of the early days, but the gist of this rings true.
I don't feel like watching a 30 min video, but I'll tell you what I think about The Simpsons: I loved it at the beginning and didn't miss an episode. Then at some point probably around season 14 or 15 I realised that I wasn't enjoying it so much anymore, but I still kept watching, only not so regularly, until some time later I stopped watching completely. Much the same happened with me. They screwed up running the Halloween episode twice and around that time I realized that it seemed to be going downhill in general and quit watching. Haven't gone back.
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Post by bondfan90 on Aug 23, 2018 16:24:56 GMT
I don't watch the recent seasons, as i feel that they are relying too much on celebrity guests. The older seasons had guests, but the episodes were mainly plot driven. Think Bart having to give SLH away, or Homer being reunited with his mother and having her leave his life again. Heart wrenching stuff.
The newer seasons lack that for me.
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Post by DSDSquared on Aug 29, 2018 12:37:50 GMT
I still watch The Simpsons almost every night with my children. We usually just pick random episodes. I decided to really look into the things said in this video. I still love the show and there are plenty of gems recently, even in the past two seasons. However, I have noticed a lot of things recently that show me that the video is not far off. Just last night I watched two episodes, one from season 17 and one from season 5. I have been doing something similar every night to really gauge the accuracy of this video. I can easily notice how they switched to the laugh track type of humor after season ten or so. This is especially noticeable in the Treehouse of Horror episodes, which I love. There is definitely a decline in comedy as the show goes on, especially in the middle seasons (12-20 or so). In the episode where Homer goes to space, for instance, the humor is very nuanced and one joke does last an entire scene, as opposed to the later stuff where Homer makes a crack and there is a silence, almost as if there should be a laugh track. Plus, the newer episodes get way more outlandish and seem to be there just for the gags. In the older episodes, the gags had something to say. Still, even with that, I still love the show and still say that there is plenty of great stuff in the later seasons. I actually think the show is better now than it was during that middle season run.
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Post by schicklgruber on Aug 30, 2018 13:28:02 GMT
The show is fine. I didn't watch the video, not interested.
People claim South Park has fallen off too. I think it's just as good as ever.
They must smoke an awful lot of pot in that writers room.
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Post by Captain Spencer on Dec 2, 2018 16:35:00 GMT
I've been watching some old Simpsons episides lately and it serves as a reminder on just how brilliant that show used to be. It had the best writing you could ever hope for; razor sharp wit with a keen sense of satire on the middle class. Well that intelligent writing is nowhere to be found in the newer episodes. It's just plane dumb, and has been reduced to the level of a kiddie cartoon.
I'd say the 1992-1993 seasons were the absolute cream of the crop. I noticed the sharp decline in quality in the early 2000s.
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Post by theauxphou on Dec 3, 2018 13:22:15 GMT
Even Groening has moved on to yet another series.
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Post by cwsims on Dec 4, 2018 2:43:07 GMT
haven't watched an episode of this series since I was five its just too crude for me!
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Dec 4, 2018 3:46:41 GMT
I stopped watching it about 3 years ago.
It did get better after about ten years of suck in the 2000s, but it just lost the edge a long time ago.
The death of Phil Hartman was one thing, and the shift around the time of Frank Grimes, but then it started to get too political and even if it wasn't, a cartoon show like that couldn't last forever.
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Post by Pep Streebeck on Dec 6, 2018 19:24:21 GMT
The downfall of The Simpsons can be summed up in 2 words. "Beavis" and "Butthead"
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Post by ck100 on Dec 7, 2018 2:14:03 GMT
My complaints are the show has gone on far too long and it relies too much on guest voices.
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